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I was pretty nervous about the final race of the fife midweek series. I had not run the route before but had found it on Garmin Connect and it was quite clearly more a hill race than a trail race. The first 2.5 miles were pretty much all up, with the route climbing to the top of Lucklaw Hill. Still, I like running downhill... I drove over with Andrew and after entering we went for an early warm up. After the dynamic I was feeling a bit foggy so took my blood sugar levels and was horrified to find it was low. Not a good place to be before the race had even started... I rummaged in the boot for the old box of Viper that had been there for several months and added three scoops to the one already in my bottle. I won't pretend that it tasted good at that concentration. My fears seemed well-founded as, over the first half mile, more and more people overtook me. Then the Viper kicked in and I picked up my pace. The grass sections had suffered from the recent high rainfall and had di